PokemonGo #15. We're gonna rock down to Electrike Avenue

I have my 7-day field research aligned with my 7-day spin and catch streaks; each week I lucky egg and star piece them. If I have a batch of a few 10K eggs, I also time those to hatch during the 30min and fill the rest of the time with pidgey-type evolving. It gives a nice uplift in xp and dust each week. Definitely worth doing if you have enough lucky eggs and star pieces for it.

I usually do it at midnight (night owl), but this week I might wait until morning and incorporate a raid.

Yes, get that egg dropped because you'll have loads and loads of xp to collect!

It sucks that gyms can disappear though - especially if you’ve built up your badges.

I go around singing ‘Kakuna, ratata, what a wonderful game’ to DD when we’re playing. Had a new gym pop up at the edge of town this week - exciting times!

look at all those shinies!! What does the % mean?

Passmethecrisps I name all my Pokemon with their IV percentage and their level, so I know how good they are.

With shinies, I don’t so much care about the IVs (although I’m very happy with my 93% shiny Gyarados!), but with regular Pokémon I prefer 90%+ IVs.

I have 25 shinies overall, 7 of which came from outside of events (one shiny Magikarp, two shiny Gyarados, one shiny Pichu, one shiny Wailmer and one shiny Swablu); the rest were from community days.

OMG! I have finally done it, after days and days and literally 100s of Pokemon I have thrown my excellent curveball. Hallelujah! Got it on Mukahira. Now before I claim my rewards does anyone know if I drop a lucky egg and a stardust star will I get extra XP and stardust?

And that’s interesting about stops and gums disappearing. In my hiatus of playing there is a new pokestop very near me but I have noticed two have disappeared. One is a residential house and the other is a Masonic lodge which is next door to a funeral parlour. So I can see the issue to be fair.

look at all those shinies!! What does the % mean?

We've got over 100 messages to go in this one but I'll try to remember to start one in a few days.

I need a trip on the crawly bus into the Toon, tomorrow. I'm constantly low on red balls because not much warrants anything better, save the odd weather boosted CP 1000+ machop. With it being it's 3rd consecutive event, I'm well on my way to a beefy machamp party.

I have a few good abras that need evolving to pulverise all these raid primape, too.

Everytime a sandshrew pops up I get Cast on loop in my brain

there's a sandshrew throwing in my head

Aha so they've put a new gym near the one that is now a pokestop. Have to start from scratch with that one though as it's new and the old one I'd nearly got to Gold.

And yes the old threads! I mainly used to lurk but wasn't there someone called weedle having a baby weedle?

Thanks whattodo. I am a bit concerned I may have ditched a shiny as I transfer anything I don’t need and I won’t have been looking closely. Ah well.

Passmethecrisps Shiny Pokemon have three diamonds in the corner of their picture, and you also get a warning if you try to transfer them to make sure you really want to, so chances of accidentally transferring a shiny are low

My mind keeps wandering to literary places with Do Androids Dream of Mareep?

A couple of stops near me have gone poof too. One was a council-run swimming pool that has been closed down, which I sort of feel sad about, but haven't used for years due to the excessive amount of chlorine it was necessary to use in the kids pool

That is hugely annoying KadabrasSpoon. I worry about my closest gym disappearing, it doesn't get raided all that much.

I'm really happy with the XP and stardust in this event, but not so much bothered about the fighting types. I'm halfway through 37 so hopefully some lucky egg raids will help that last push to 38. Then I've promised myself that I will slow down since there's not much to gain from levelling up further (well, except for bragging rights and as there are loads of level 40 players here that ship has already sailed). That's the plan anyway, it might not happen

I'm not going to tell anyone that the pokestop nearest my house is a pub that disappeared a couple of years ago, though there's still a clock next to it that would make a good replacement, particularly as it's one of those that's right twice a day.

Argh! They have got rid of one of my local gyms and turned into a pokestop. It appeared like one I hadn't spun before. Thanks niantic
Repeatedly tells self it's only a game

I am not bothered about this event - in fact on my walk this morning I saw a grand total of about 5 things which weren’t fighting types. It seems overkill if that’s all I can catch for two weeks.

Thanks whattodo. I am a bit concerned I may have ditched a shiny as I transfer anything I don’t need and I won’t have been looking closely. Ah well.

I'm a bit meh about this event tbh. I do hit up gyms a lot and battle and raid every day, but I'm just not that bothered. Aside from the bonus rare candy and stardust in Raids I'm very apathetic towards this event. plus it's around for a whole fortnight so is going to get stale long before it's over.

I swear PoGo are watching my account and waiting for me to achieve something before putting out an event that would have made it much easier.

It’s taken me ages to Gold the two gyms I use everyday because everything gets kicked out after 5 mins. Finally got there on Monday.

Since I can do a 20 minute walk around the block and hit 3 gold gyms (just levelled the final one up at the weekend) this is going to be great for filling my bag.

I have seen 351 Magikarp and caught 342. No shiny. I live in a marina so can’t get much closer to water!

As a several-a-day battler and raider, I am very happy with this battle focused event and the two new shinies

I’ve attached a picture of the rewards for this event. So if you’re wanting gold on a particular gym, now is a great time to target it!